Automatically generating visual syntax-directed editors

  • Authors:
  • Farah Arefi;Charles E. Hughes;David A. Workman

  • Affiliations:
  • Florida International Univ., Miami;Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando;Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

Since inexpensive computers possessing sophisticated graphics were introduced in the late 1970s, program development research has focused on syntax-directed editors that are based on the grammars of their underlying languages. The system presented here automatically generates object-oriented, syntax-directed editors for visual languages, which are described by a family of editing operations.